Children's Video issued "Terrytoons Good Guys" compilation VHS tapes in 1985 which included one Deputy Dawg cartoon per tape. In Kingsport, Tennessee, the Taylor Drive-In Theater played the cartoons Where Theres Smoke and Nobodys Ghoul. Does this sound right from around the late 70s? Some much needed common sense. Pinterest. Larz Bourne came up with the series concept and drew the first storyboards. Great read. This is ANIMAL behavior. The tape catalogue numbers are listed below for the titles released. Deputy Dawg aired on KNXT TV 2 (Now KCBS TV 2) on Saturday mornings and later Sunday mornings and Possible Possum air on syndication via KCOP TV 13 on the Skip and Woofer Show here in SoCal. Study now. Deputy Dawg Main Page (DD) Page introduced by Iain. That means a lot, and Im glad you liked my book. Certainly by the time it had Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, and Petticoat Junction on at the same time in 1963, CBS couldnt say it was trying to avoid looking too rural. ago. L.A. County sheriffs vehicles during a homeless count in Malibu in 2020. 2 1. Everybody I know loves Deputy Dawg. I was to young to know the true orgin of its creation, like other cartoons during that period as kids we just loved watching them and as an adult now often remminsesce about our favorite cartoons. Here are 12 popular phrases that you may want to rethink using in everyday conversation. Nobody here but us chickens, said the thief in the henhouse). Vocally speaking, early Muskies catchphrase remains Its possible, its possible, still suggestive of his original name. Story man Larz Bourne, billed as chief writer in publicity, created the concept and, by most accounts, drew the first boards. This is a collection of over 29 episodes ripped directly from VHS releases. When the tour began in September 1961, it barely missed becoming engulfed in a prolonged civil rights demonstration. The Bucs haven't re-signed free-agent safety Logan Ryan. muskie shares the same skin color as african americans A canine sheriff's deputy in a backwoods Southern town always manages to catch the bad guy, despite his own ineptitude. Its amazing that so many readers took the above highly opinionated, biased article as fact. The exact story of how Deputy Dawg was developed is incomplete, but early press coverage and related research bring new revelations to light. They basically took a skit that was a staple of many classic cartoons (Looney Tunes, Disney, Droopy, Even Tom and Jerry, if you replace the dog with a cat, the gopher/muskrat/mole/etc. Neither Muskie nor Possible look very much like opossums though that may be attributed to the Terrytoons character design department at the time but I daresay that the existence of a syndicated cartoon starring a possum who lives around a swamp (and has an alligator pal given to wearing hats) would likely have raised the hackles of Walt Kelly. The tactic of selling Dixiefried shows in the South was nothing new to CBS Film Sales. Officers in Mississippi arrested the Freedom Riders, and a judge sent them to the Maximum Security Unit at the state penitentiary. Jerry: How/why some modern day observers are so positively determined to find racism in charming kids cartoons is the real question. The Deputy Dawg Show Episode 4 - Lil Whooper. I found a handful with gang credits in the end, but also a few with individual directors listed. I rather disagree since after watching a bunch of Terry-era shorts, Deputy Dawg seem to have more charm and a bit more energy than most of the one shorts and the lesser character stared shorts of the past. You betcha. because he was part rabbit. Huckleberry Hound has an almost beatnik edge to his persona, and Quick Draw was hilarious. CBS got what they wanted from the studio by the time they called it quits and kept those cartoons in circulation as long as possible. Find the comic issue to see past sale prices, or request a free auction appraisal. Some people just seem hell bent on politicising everything. Betty Boop? Plus, African-Americans enjoyed the cartoon as much as European-Americans (interesting name). Greater Atlanta Area. Watch. However, some civil rights activists in the South saw Deputy Dawg as a symbol of police enforcement of segregation laws against African Americans. The Deputy Dawg Show, as it was called as a package, debuted in syndication in fall 1960. Magpie Madness (Heckle and Jeckle) Quite simply, if you had taken more than a cursory glance at Deputy Dawg without any preconceived notions, you would not have noted any dichotomy between a white Deputy Dawg and the colour of the other characters in the show. It is no secret that unfair African-American stereotypes were depicted in various cartoons through the years, in varying ways ranging from Mammy Two-Shoes in Tom and Jerry to Inky and the Mynah Bird. Mr. Alligator appeared less often after the first few cartoons. One officer said a supervisor . You can also follow him on his Tumblr page. Thank you very much. MH. Professor Lehmans blog postings are yet another example of how everything is construed to be racist, sexist, and every other ist.. It wasnt new, it wasnt original, and it wasnt racist. 1010 Campus Drive Big Rapids, MI 49307 [email protected] (231) 591-5873 Musical direction was by Terrytoons standby Philip A. Scheib (April 14, 1894April 1969), who at the time had recently worked on the Oscar-nominated Terrytoons shorts Sidney's Family Tree (1958) and The Juggler of Our Lady (1958). The notion that Deputy Dawg and Muskie are enemies because theyre of different races is absurd. I never knew that American Blacks were associated with the raiding chicken coops for eggs: surely there were starving white people in the south during and after the destruction that resulted from the Civil War. But,instead of a descending blast on a pennywhistle, or a bit of music sliced out of a previous cartoon, it used a purpose-written piece of music, long enough to fill the time without any dead air. His first civics lesson? I would argue that at least some of the Dawg shorts look better in black-&-white which is how I originally saw them than in color. Perhaps it was during that final season of the show when he finally got to direct the episodes. In retrospect, Im surprised we didnt see a lot of editorial cartoonists or others latch onto Deputy Dawg as shorthand. If one listens to the dialogue whenever Muskie Muskrats name is brought up, theres an audio splice, indicating that it got overdubbed late in production. But the later Possible Possum shorts were pretty dreary, arriving at a time when it seemed that the studio could not do anything right. Deputy Dawg you see is actually grey: http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=34673.120, I found this site because I have an old copper Deputy Dawg head mold. According to the Sarasota Journal of April 25, 1963, Bourne wanted to create what he called a Dixie-voiced character. - Mama, please. 10:02. I mean I bet this was funny stuff back then, being the few shows which were on at that time.He was an actor and writer, known for Sunrise (1927), The Girl of the Golden West (1930) and The Bat (1926). When a deputy was recorded calling a suspect the n-word in 2018, the Marshals Service put the Ohio employee on administrative leave and said it had "zero tolerance for this type of behavior . A more problematic romanticization of the Jim Crow era was the animated Calvin and the Colonel (1961), which ran in prime time. While Muskie Muskrat was the antagonist, along with Vincent Van Gopher, there were episodes in which Deputy Dawg and Muskie joined forces and, when it seemed like Deputy Dawg was going to get himself in trouble with the Sheriff (the only human in the whole series), Muskie, Vince and that alligator (whose name I dont recall right now) helped absolve him of all blame. Same with Possible Possum. [6] However, most of Muskie's and Vince's crimes are not taken very seriously, enabling Deputy Dawg to pal around with them when they are not causing trouble. The Deputy Dawg Show Episode 2 - The Space Varmint. Hes only citing you for using your cellphone while youre driving. Terrytoons did rally a bit near the end with Bakshis The Mighty Heroes, though it failed to catch on. Deputy Dawg: The Fragrant Vagrant [VHS] 3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars (7) VHS Tape. The symbols of British identity so self-consciously adopted by Starmer the ubiquitous Union Jack flags and the celebration of the "national" anthem are more the signifiers of a reshaped imperial role as Deputy Dawg to Joe Biden's global sheriff. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. The Deputy Dawg Show was an instant success upon its debut that fall. A bull flees from Mexico because he doesn't want to participate in bullfighting. So the question that comes to mind while reading this is: where in this process did CBS/Captain Kangaroo opt out of Possible Possum and the decision to rebrand and sell to syndication as Deputy Dawg happen? The body camera belonged to the deputy and was not sheriffs department equipment, according to spokeswoman Trina Schrader. Sold: Nov 3, 2022 . You want to be white.. Deputy Dawg didnt include the political satire that Kelly wold put into his strip. Los Angeles Southwest College said on Twitter that she may have been a former employee who last worked at the college in 2017. Just a wooden sign with the name of the episode. Explore. there are many glaring errors with this piece: As a kid I remember it playing in the Bay Area; there was a lot of merchandising (as there seemed to be for all television animation even the not-that-widespread Dick Tracy). Sure. Deputy Dawg wasnt the studios first foray into producing original animation for televisionthat would be Tom Terrific, produced for the childrens show Captain Kangaroo in 1957but it was larger in scale than any previous effort. Schrader said the rollout is an extensive process that takes time. I was enthused at first, but dropped out over time. On May 17th, 1959, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution published the earliest-known public statements about the show as part of an interview with its voice actor, Dayton Allen. Even non-African-American characters were occasionally shown in blackface. Ray Pointer, thank you. The Deputy Dawg Show E0105 - Deputy Dawg Intro. I dont know what you mean by so long ago, but I started frequenting head shops way back in the 1970s and can assure you that I never saw any Deputy Dawg posters for sale then or in the ensuing decades. Not entertaining to me at all. After two weeks of sales in May 1960, CBS made $600,000 in sales to fifteen major television stations. Wiki User. I think BBC1 first aired the show . Sheriffs officials said she has filed at least one prior complaint against the department. The early boards shown to the Captain Kangaroo staff had an even more obvious Pogo feel than the finished films, according to Bakshi. This was also the last Terrytoons series to use the dressing-room-door' logo that had been used on The Farmer Al Falfa Show (syndicated) and on the Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle network shows. CBS hired the advertising agency Liller, Neal, Battle & Lindsey (LNBL) of Atlanta, Georgia to handle the series, and LNBL relied significantly on southern businesses to support the cartoon. Human Resources responsibility for the U.S. 1975 Terrytoons releases through 20th Century-Fox, according to Boxoffice magazine, 20 September 1976, page 90: As for borrowed celebrity voices- even when I was young- I related the character MOLEY MOLE to Howard McNear- Floyd The Barber on The Andy Griffith Show. WHENEVER WE VIEWED a typically scripted episode, we were rudely reminded that this indeed was no FANTASIA., not even a HUCKLEBERRY HOUND. The Deputy Dawg shorts were passable animated television fare back in the day although they looked unacceptably cheap and artistically undernourished on the big screen (Fox distributed some of the shorts theatrically). That commercial is so beautifully wrong even in the UPA toons Tracy was never allowed to be part of the joke. 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